Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

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Loki
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Tom Hiddleston appearing in character as Loki at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
First appearanceThor (2011)
Last appearance
Based on
Adapted by
Portrayed by
Jotunn (Frost Giant)
Title
  • God of Time
  • God of Stories
  • God of Mischief[2][3]
  • Prince of
    Asgard
  • King of Asgard
  • Rightful King of
    Jotunheim
Affiliation
  • Frost Giants
  • Chitauri
  • Revengers
  • Time Variance Authority
    (2012 variant)
Weapon
Family
  • Laufey
    (father)
  • Odin
    (adoptive father)
  • Frigga
    (adoptive mother)
  • Hela
    (adoptive sister)
  • Thor (adoptive brother)
Significant otherSylvie (2012 variant)
OriginJotunheim
NationalityAsgardian

Loki Laufeyson,[1] also known by adoption as Loki Odinson and by his title as the God of Mischief,[2][3] is a character portrayed by Tom Hiddleston in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and the Norse mythological deity of the same name, Loki was introduced in the film Thor (2011) and has since become a recurring staple in the MCU. As of 2023, the character has appeared in seven films and headlined the live-action series Loki (2021), while alternate timeline versions, or "variants", of Loki from within the multiverse have also appeared in Loki, the animated series What If...? (2021)[5] and the animated short film The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021).[6]

As in the comics, Loki is depicted as

Time Variance Authority (TVA), encounters a female variant of himself named Sylvie
, and ultimately sacrifices his freedom to save the multiverse from destruction.

Loki is considered a fan favorite character in the franchise and Hiddleston's performance has received praise from critics and audiences.

Concept and creation

Loki initially appeared in the science fiction/fantasy anthology Timely Comics' (Marvel Comic's predecessor) publication Venus No. 6 (August 1949) as a member of the Olympian gods exiled to the Underworld.

However, the current version of Loki made his first official Marvel appearance in Journey into Mystery No. 85 (October 1962), where Loki was reintroduced as Thor's sworn enemy.

He was introduced by co-writers

The Avengers and X-Men,[7] as well as brief appearances in the Spider-Man and Defenders
comic series.

Live-action film adaptations of characters in the Thor comic books were proposed at various times, but did not come to fruition. In the mid-2000s, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the Avengers, which included Thor. Feige, a self-professed "fanboy", envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.[8] In 2006, the film was announced as a Marvel Studios production.[9] In December 2007, Protosevich described his plans for it "to be like a superhero origin story, but not one about a human gaining super powers, but of a god realizing his true potential. It's the story of an Old Testament god who becomes a New Testament god".[10] In 2008, Guillermo del Toro entered talks to direct the film. Del Toro was a fan of Jack Kirby's work on the comics, and said that he loved the character of Loki, but wished to incorporate more of the original Norse mythology into the film,[11] including a "really dingy Valhalla, [with] Vikings and mud".[12] However, del Toro ultimately turned down Thor to direct The Hobbit. Kenneth Branagh entered into negotiations to direct,[13] and by December 2008, Branagh confirmed that he had been hired. He described it as "a human story right in the center of a big epic scenario."[14]

Several actors were reportedly considered for the part, including Josh Hartnett,[15] and Jim Carrey.[16] In May 2009, Marvel announced that Tom Hiddleston, who had worked with Branagh before and had initially been considered to portray the lead role, had been cast as Loki.[17] In June 2009, Feige confirmed that both Chris Hemsworth and Hiddleston had signed on.[18]

Characterization

Hiddleston promoting Avengers: Infinity War at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con

Tom Hiddleston stated that "Loki's like a comic book version of Edmund in King Lear, but nastier".[19] Hiddleston stated that he had to keep a strict diet before the start of filming because director Kenneth Branagh "wants Loki to have a lean and hungry look, like Cassius in Julius Caesar. Physically, he can't be posing as Thor".[20] Hiddleston also looked at Peter O'Toole as inspiration for Loki, explaining, "Interestingly enough, Kenneth said to look at Peter O'Toole in two specific films, The Lion in Winter and Lawrence of Arabia. What's interesting about ... his performance [as King Henry] is you see how damaged he is. There's a rawness [to his performance]; it's almost as if he's living with a layer of skin peeled away. He's grandiose and teary and, in a moment, by turns hilarious and then terrifying. What we wanted was that emotional volatility. It's a different acting style, it's not quite the same thing, but it's fascinating to go back and watch an actor as great as O'Toole head for those great high hills".[21] Ted Allpress portrays a young Loki.

About his character's evolution from Thor to The Avengers, Hiddleston said, "I think the Loki we see in The Avengers is further advanced. You have to ask yourself the question: How pleasant an experience is it disappearing into a wormhole that has been created by some kind of super nuclear explosion of his own making? So I think by the time Loki shows up in The Avengers, he's seen a few things."[22] About Loki's motivations, Hiddleston said, "At the beginning of The Avengers, he comes to Earth to subjugate it and his idea is to rule the human race as their king. And like all the delusional autocrats of human history, he thinks this is a great idea because if everyone is busy worshipping him, there will be no wars so he will create some kind of world peace by ruling them as a tyrant. But he is also kind of deluded in the fact that he thinks unlimited power will give him self-respect, so I haven't let go of the fact that he is still motivated by this terrible jealousy and kind of spiritual desolation."[23] Hiddleston also filmed scenes for Avengers: Age of Ultron, but his scenes were omitted from the theatrical cut because director Joss Whedon didn't want the movie to feel "overstuffed".[24]

In Thor: The Dark World, Loki forms an uneasy alliance with Thor against the Dark Elves.[25][26][27] On where he wished to take the character in the film, Hiddleston said, "I'd like to take [Loki] to his absolute rock bottom. I'd like to see him yield, essentially, to his darkest instincts. Then, having hit rock bottom, maybe come back up. I think the fascination for me about playing Loki is that, in the history of the mythology and the comic books and the Scandinavian myths, is he's constantly dancing on this fault line of the dark side and redemption."[28] Hiddleston recalled, "When I met Alan [Taylor], he asked me how I thought I could do Loki again without repeating myself and I remembered talking with Kevin Feige when we were on the Avengers promotional tour. I said, 'OK, you've seen Thor and Loki be antagonistic for two films now. It would be amazing to see them fight side by side. I've been the bad guy now twice, so I can't be again, or otherwise I shouldn't be in the film. So we have to find a new role for me to play."[29]

Hiddleston was interested in how Loki's attitude has changed by the events of Thor: Ragnarok, saying, "he is always a trickster. It is trying to find new ways for him to be mischievous".[30] As the ruler of Asgard since the end of Thor: The Dark World (2013), Hiddleston notes that "Loki has devoted most of his efforts to narcissistic self-glorification. Not so much on good governance."[31] He also added that "the idea that Thor might be indifferent to Loki is troubling for him... it's an interesting development".[32]

With respect to Loki's death at the beginning of Infinity War, Hiddleston expressed the opinion that "it's very powerful he calls himself an Odinson, and that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do", also noting that Loki's death demonstrates how powerful Thanos is, setting the stage for the fight against him.[33]

In

genderfluidity in Marvel Comics. Hiddleston said that the "breadth and range of identity contained in the character has been emphasized and is something I was always aware of when I was first cast 10 years ago...I know it was important to Kate Herron and Michael Waldron and to the whole team. And we were very aware, this is something we felt responsible for."[34]

Appearance and special effects

Hiddleston has noted that his transformation into Loki has required dyeing his naturally blond hair and making his naturally ruddy skin appear very pale, stating:

In making him with this raven black hair and blanching my face of all color, it changes my features. Suddenly my blue eyes look a lot bluer, which lends a severity to my face. And even my own smile has a distorted menace to it. Whatever comes through me naturally is distorted.[35]

Loki's costume in Thor, designed by Marvel's head of visual development Charlie Wen, adapted elements from the comics while adding elements to give it a futuristic feel, reflecting the treatment of magic in the Thor films as merely highly advanced technology. Like other representations of Asgard, particularly including the costumes of Thor and Odin, it also referenced Norse symbols. Wen stated that he "designed Loki's armor to be more overtly ceremonial than practical", in keeping with the character being more focused on scheming for power than engaging in battle.[36]

Hiddleston described the horns worn as part of his Loki costume as weighing about 30 pounds, resulting in one instance during the filming of The Avengers where he asked co-star Chris Hemsworth to really punch him in the face, because the weight of the horns made it difficult to fake being hit.[37]

During the Loki TV series, numerous Loki variants were shown or introduced with varying appearances. With respect to the most prominently featured variant, Sylvie, Loki costume designer Christine Wada and director Kate Herron planned Sylvie to be "mysterious and somewhat

Lady Loki, wore a similar crown in the comics.[39] Another variant, Classic Loki, wore a costume inspired by the character's 1960s comic design by Jack Kirby.[40]

Fictional character biography

Early life

Loki was born a Frost Giant and abandoned as an infant by his father

Frigga
taught Loki how to use his magic.

He used these powers throughout his life, constantly tricking his adoptive brother Thor, as well as pulling a heist on Earth under the alias D. B. Cooper. He was embittered throughout his upbringing, perceiving that he was neglected by Odin in favor of Thor, and thus grew closer to his adoptive mother Frigga instead.

Betrayal of Asgard

Hundreds of years later, in 2011, Loki watches as Thor prepares to ascend to the throne of

Destroyer, a seemingly indestructible automaton
, to pursue them and kill Thor. The Destroyer leaves Thor on the verge of death but his sacrifice sees him become worthy of returning from exile and he regains his powers and defeats the Destroyer. Afterward, Thor leaves with his fellow Asgardians to confront Loki. In Asgard, Loki betrays and kills Laufey, revealing his true plan to use Laufey's attempt on Odin's life as an excuse to destroy Jotunheim with the Bifröst, thus proving himself worthy to Odin. Thor arrives and fights Loki before destroying the Bifröst to stop Loki's plan, stranding himself in Asgard. Odin awakens and prevents the brothers from falling into the abyss created in the wake of the bridge's destruction, but after Odin rejects Loki's pleas for approval, Loki allows himself to fall into the abyss.

In space, Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the

Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract,[a] a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Later, Erik Selvig is taken to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Nick Fury
opens a briefcase and asks him to study a mysterious cube. Loki, invisible, prompts Selvig to agree, and he does.

Invasion of New York

In 2012, Loki attacks a remote

Quinjet, Thor arrives and takes him away, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan. Thor eventually takes Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier. Upon arrival, Loki is imprisoned while Bruce Banner and Stark attempt to locate the Tesseract. Agents possessed by Loki attack the Helicarrier, disabling one of its engines in flight and causing Banner to transform into the Hulk. Thor attempts to stop the Hulk's rampage, and Loki kills the agent Phil Coulson and ejects Thor from the Helicarrier as he escapes. Loki uses the Tesseract, in conjunction with a device Selvig built, to open a wormhole above Stark Tower in New York City to the Chitauri fleet in space, launching his invasion. The Avengers
arrive and rally in defense of the city. As the Chitauri are ultimately defeated, the Hulk attacks Loki and beats him into submission in the Tower, before Loki is arrested and taken to Asgard.

Battle with the Dark Elves

In 2013,

Frigga, who had taught Loki magic. Thor reluctantly frees Loki, who agrees to take Thor to a secret portal to Svartalfheim, home of the dark elves, in return for Thor's promise to take vengeance for their mother. In Svartalfheim, Loki appears to betray Thor, in fact tricking Malekith into drawing the Aether out of Jane, but Thor's attempt to destroy the exposed substance fails. Malekith merges with the Aether and leaves in his ship as Loki appears to be fatally wounded saving Thor from Kurse, whom Loki was able to kill through trickery. Thor ultimately defeats Malekith in a battle in Greenwich
, and returns to Asgard to decline Odin's offer to take the throne, and tells Odin of Loki's sacrifice. After Thor leaves, it is shown that Loki has actually survived and taken Odin's place on the throne, disguised as Odin.

Destruction of Asgard

From 2013 to 2017, Loki rules Asgard disguised as Odin, having kept the real Odin under a spell on Earth. During this time, the disguised Loki sends Sif to Earth on a mission and later banishes her from Asgard.

In 2017, Thor returns to Asgard and discovers Loki's ruse, making Loki reveal himself to the shocked Asgardians. After Loki tells Thor where Odin is, he is taken by Thor back to Earth to New York City. Loki is trapped through a portal by

Surtur
to appear and destroy Hela and Asgard. In the process of doing so however, he steals the Tesseract from Odin's treasure vault. Thor, crowned king, decides to take the Asgardians to Earth despite Loki's concerns about how he will be received there.

Death

While en-route to Earth, in 2018, Loki and Thor are intercepted by a large spacecraft carrying

children
, alerted to their location by the presence of the Tesseract secretly being held by Loki. After wiping out half of the Asgardians onboard while the rest flee via escape pods, Thanos, wielding the Power Stone, overpowers Thor and Hulk, kills Heimdall, and claims the Space Stone from the Tesseract that Loki hands over to him in order to spare Thor's life. In a last act of self-sacrifice, Loki pretends to swear allegiance to Thanos, only to attempt to stab his throat. Thanos intercepts the attack with one of his infinity stones, and kills Loki by snapping his neck, leaving his body to be cradled in his brother's arms.

2012 variant

Capture and learning his original fate

Hiddleston promoting Loki at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.

A variant of Loki, dubbed Variant L1130, retrieves the Tesseract in an alternate 2012 during the

Time Variance Authority (TVA), while the new timeline is reset and destroyed.[44]

TVA judge

Mobius M. Mobius intervenes and takes Loki to a Time Theatre where he reviews Loki's past misdeeds and questions his real motive for hurting people. After realizing that the Infinity Stones
cannot help him, as well as viewing his would-be future on the "Sacred Timeline", including his own death at the hand of Thanos, Loki agrees to help Mobius stop a rogue variant of himself.

Working with the Time Variance Authority

Loki joins a TVA mission following an ambush by the fugitive Loki Variant in 1985

Ragnarök, where the impending destruction means their actions cannot change the timeline, thus concealing them from the TVA. Loki and Mobius confirm this possibility by visiting Pompeii in 79 AD. Travelling to 2050 Alabama
, they encounter The Variant, who rejects Loki's offer to work together to overthrow the Time-Keepers, before revealing herself as a female variant of Loki. The Variant then uses TVA Reset Charges to "bomb" the timeline, creating new timeline branches to keep the organization's minutemen busy, before escaping through a portal to the TVA to assassinate the Time-Keepers, with Loki in pursuit.

Allying with Sylvie

After a confrontation at the TVA, Loki teleports the Variant to Lamentis-1, a planet set to be destroyed by a meteor shower, using their TemPad. Both are unable to escape due to the TemPad having run out of power. Agreeing to ally with one another, the Variant introduces herself to Loki by the alias "Sylvie" and proposes a truce in order to escape the planet. The pair sneak aboard a train bound for the Ark, a spaceship intended to evacuate Lamentis-1, in order to siphon its power and recharge the TemPad. On the train, Loki gets drunk and starts a ruckus, causing him and Sylvie to be discovered and forced out by the guards. While walking to the Ark in order to instead hijack it and leave the planet, to prevent it from being destroyed as according to the Sacred Timeline, Loki enquires about Sylvie's enchantment ability, learning that the agents of the TVA are variants themselves; Loki reveals to Sylvie that the TVA agents, including Mobius, are not aware that they are variants. With the TemPad broken, the pair fight their way through the guards and through a meteor shower to the Ark, only to witness it being destroyed by a meteor just as they get to it, leaving them stranded.

On Lamentis-1, Sylvie tells Loki she escaped the TVA when she was about to be arrested as a child. Loki and Sylvie form a romantic bond, creating a branched timeline never seen by the TVA. Mobius rescues the two from Lamentis and has them both arrested, punishing Loki by leaving him in a time loop from his past. After Mobius derides Loki for having fallen in love with Sylvie, Loki tells him that everyone working for the TVA are variants, which Mobius investigates. Now aware of his background upon finding proof, Mobius frees Loki from the loop, but is soon confronted by Renslayer and pruned. Loki and Sylvie are taken to the Time-Keepers, accompanied by Renslayer and her minutemen. Hunter B-15 intervenes, freeing Loki and Sylvie of their time twisting collars, and in the ensuing fight, the minutemen are killed whilst Renslayer is knocked unconscious by Sylvie. Sylvie then beheads one of the Time-Keepers, who turn out to all be androids. Loki prepares to tell Sylvie about his feelings, but Renslayer regains consciousness and prunes him. He awakens in a post-apocalyptic world, dubbed "the Void", with multiple other Loki variants, who invite him to join them.

Surviving in the Void and meeting He Who Remains

Loki learns from his other variants that a cloud-like creature named Alioth guards the Void and prevents anyone from escaping. Boastful Loki attempts to betray the other Lokis for another Loki variant (who was elected president in his timeline), causing a fight to ensue, forcing Loki and his variant allies to escape. After reuniting with Loki, Sylvie proposes a plan to approach Alioth and enchant it, in hopes that it will lead them to the real mastermind behind the TVA's creation, whilst Mobius teleports back to the TVA. Kid Loki and Reptile Loki escape while Classic Loki creates a large illusion of Asgard to distract Alioth and sacrifices himself in the process. This allows Loki and Sylvie to successfully enchant the creature and move past the Void. The pair see the Citadel at the End of Time in the foreground, and walk towards it.

In the citadel, Loki and Sylvie encounter Miss Minutes and reject an offer from her creator, "

He Who Remains
", to return them to the timeline with everything they desire. He Who Remains reveals to Loki and Sylvie that he created the TVA after ending a multiversal war caused by his variants. As the timeline begins to branch, he offers them a choice: kill him and end the singular timeline, causing another multiversal war, or become his successors in overseeing the TVA. Sylvie decides to kill him, while Loki pleads with her to stop. They kiss, but Sylvie sends Loki back to TVA headquarters. At TVA headquarters, Loki warns B-15 and Mobius about variants of He Who Remains, but they do not recognize him. Loki sees that a statue in the likeness of He Who Remains has replaced those of the Time-Keepers.

Time Slipping throughout the TVA

Back at the TVA, Loki discovers that he is uncontrollably warping across time. In the past, the TVA attempts to apprehend Loki. In the present, Loki reunites with

Ouroboros "O. B.", who deduces that Loki is "time slipping", a phenomenon possibly caused by the instability of the timeline branches caused by the death of He Who Remains. Loki slips to a point 400 years in the past in the same place, where he instructs O. B. to build a Temporal Aura Extractor device to stop Loki's time slipping. In the present, O. B. suddenly remembers that he has been holding onto the device for centuries, and instructs Mobius to approach the Temporal Loom with it to extract Loki from the time stream as Loki prunes himself. Loki time slips to the future, where he briefly encounters Sylvie
before he is pruned by someone at the last possible second. Mobius successfully pulls Loki from the time stream, and the two of them set out to find Sylvie. While in the future, Loki also witnesses the Temporal Loom going critical, forcing the evacuation of the TVA. In the present, Loki, O. B. and Mobius witness the beginning of this meltdown which O. B. begins working to stop.

Fixing the Temporal Loom

Terrified about the variants of He Who Remains created in the infinite time that passed while he was on the Citadel, Loki convinces Mobius to seek out to find where other variants may be. They travel to the 1893

Victor Timely presenting his Temporal Loom prototype.[b] Timely flees as four groups chase him: Loki and Mobius, who want to bring him back to the TVA to use his aura to fix the Loom; Renslayer and Miss Minutes, who want him to take his variant's place with them at his side; Sylvie, who wants to kill him to prevent his rise to power; and a robber baron
and his allies wanting revenge against Timely's fake invention scam. Renslayer, Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie find Timely at his Wisconsin laboratory, with Sylvie gaining control. Sylvie relents and allows Loki to take Timely back to the TVA, then sends Renslayer to the Citadel at the End of Time with Miss Minutes being brought along.

As the Temporal Loom reaches critical, Loki and his allies attempt to fix it, but are blocked by Renslayer, Miss Minutes and Brad Wolfe. In the midst of the group's attempts to fix the Loom, Loki encountered his time slipping past self and pruned his past self, realizing that it was actually he himself who had done it during his earlier adventure. After O. B. takes Miss Minutes off-line, Sylvie is able to enchant Brad into pruning Renslayer, but the temporal radiation disintegrates Timely before he can place the Throughput Multiplier in the Loom. The Temporal Loom explodes, and Loki is caught in the blast wave as it engulfs the TVA.

Forming Yggdrasil

Having survived the explosion, Loki finds himself in the abandoned TVA and begins time slipping once again, barely escaping as the TVA disintegrates. Loki's time slipping takes him to the branched timelines where his friends Mobius, Hunter B-15, Casey and O. B. have been reset to their previous lives as Don, Dr. Verity Willis, Frank Morris and Dr. A.D. Doug respectively. Of the group, only Doug believes Loki and, since Loki can't control his time slipping, proposes a plan to bring together the group that was present at the explosion to use their collective temporal aura to determine the coordinates that Loki needs to travel back in time to. Although Loki manages to collect the others, Sylvie, who retains her memories as well, is uninterested in helping and gets Loki to admit that his true motivation is a fear of losing his friends and being alone. Sylvie encourages Loki to write his own story like everyone else, but before he can send everyone home, Sylvie appears with the news that all of reality is breaking down. As he disintegrates, Loki finally figures out how to control his time slipping by focusing on a person rather than an event. Declaring that he can "rewrite the story," Loki successfully travels back in time to before the explosion by focusing on O. B.

After centuries spent time slipping to learn from O. B., and after successfully guiding Victor Timely in setting up the Throughput Multiplier, Loki learns that the Temporal Loom cannot be fixed. After time slipping an unspecified amount of time and having conversations with He Who Remains, Loki learns that the Temporal Loom is nothing but a failsafe designed to protect the Sacred Timeline. Loki is left with the dilemma of possibly killing Sylvie in the past to save He Who Remains, seeking advice from past versions of Mobius and Sylvie.

Loki decides to sacrifice himself by destroying the Temporal Loom, reviving and maintaining the timelines with his magic, and rearranging them into Yggdrasil, by taking over He Who Remains' position. He becomes the new keeper of time. Inspired by Loki's actions, the TVA is reformed to preserve and protect the multiverse, and to hunt down He Who Remains' variants. Having finally found his glorious purpose, Loki sits alone on a throne at the center of the timelines that he now maintains, listening to his friends through them with a heartbroken but satisfied expression on his face.

Later, in the closing scene of the second season finale of What If...?, after Captain Peggy Carter has completed her mission, the Watcher offers to return her to her home dimension, and when she asks to take "the scenic route" in order to take in interesting sites, he shows her Yggdrasil.[c]

Other variants

2013 variant

An alternate version of Loki from the events of Thor: The Dark World briefly appears in Avengers: Endgame. In an alternate 2013, Thor and Rocket travel to Asgard to take the Reality Stone, passing unnoticed by a bored Loki in his holding cell in the dungeons.

Loki

Multiple "variants" of Loki in addition to the 2012 variant appear in Loki.

Sylvie

Sylvie (portrayed by Sophia Di Martino as an adult and by Cailey Fleming as a child) is a female variant of Loki who seeks to "free" the Sacred Timeline from the TVA, developing a method of body possession to achieve her ends.[45] Sylvie was first taken into custody by the TVA as a little girl, but escaped, and thereafter spent her life evading them.

Other variants

L to R: The Boastful, Alligator, Kid and Classic Loki variants as seen in "The Nexus Event". Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said that seeing different versions of Loki was "part of the fun of the multiverse and playing with time".[46]

What If...?

Several alternate versions of Loki appear in the animated series What If...?, with Hiddleston reprising his role.

Conquering the Earth

In an alternate 2011, following the death of Thor during his exile to Earth, Loki arrives with the Asgardian army to avenge him. Confronted by

Hank Pym. The two confront him in San Francisco and defeat him, but Loki decides to remain on Earth and quickly becomes its ruler while ending all conflict on Earth.[55]

Sometime later, Fury assembles a resistance movement consisting of Steve Rogers and Carol Danvers to overthrow Loki and a battle ensues between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Loki's Asgardian forces. During the fight, a Natasha Romanoff from another universe appears and subdues Loki with his Scepter.

Frost Giant prince

In an alternate 965 A.D., an infant Loki is returned by Odin to Laufey, resulting in Loki growing up to be the Frost Giant prince of

Jotunheim
. Loki and Thor later meet under unknown circumstances and become best friends.

In 2011, Loki attends Thor's intergalactic party on Earth alongside his fellow Frost Giants, who vandalize Mount Rushmore. Loki accidentally prevents Jane Foster from contacting Thor when, due to his large Frost Giant fingers, he drops and breaks Thor's cell phone. He and his Frost Giants later send the London Eye spinning off into one direction. When Thor intimidates the party guests into cleaning up while also mentioning that Frigga is coming, Loki's fellow Frost Giants put the London Eye back on its stand.

Battle of New York

In an alternate 2012, Loki sent the Chituari army to attack New York City in the Battle of New York. During the battle, he was confronted by Natasha Romanoff and Captain Peggy Carter and was apprehended.

1602 Prince Loki

In an alternate 1602, Loki is the Prince and is a Shakespearean stage performer. As their universe is experiencing an impending incursion, a tear opens up and he is pulled towards it but is saved by Captain Peggy Carter. However, his sister, Queen Hela gets swept away and Thor becomes the King.

While riding in a carriage with some women explaining his next performance, they get stopped by the arrival of Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, and Scott Lang who want to steal their food.

Later, Loki is present at the courtroom with Thor when Carter, Rogers, Barnes, Lang, and

Tony Stark
arrive to take the Scepter and witnesses the reveal that Rogers is the time-displaced person causing the incursion who Carter sends away.

Reception

The character of Loki "has been a fan favorite ever since his central role in 2012's The Avengers",[56] becoming "one of the MCU's most beloved characters".[57] Hiddleston has received a number of nominations and awards for his performance of the character.

Accolades

Year Project Award Category Result Ref(s)
2011 Thor Scream Awards Scream Award for Breakout Performance – Male Nominated [58]
2012 Empire Awards Best Male Newcomer Won [59]
Saturn Awards
Best Supporting Actor Nominated [60]
The Avengers Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Villain Nominated [61]
2013 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Villain Nominated [62]
MTV Movie Awards
Best Villain Won [63]
2014 Thor: The Dark World Empire Awards Empire Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated [64]
Saturn Awards Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated [65]
2018 Thor: Ragnarok Teen Choice Awards Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scene Stealer Nominated [66]
2021 Loki People's Choice Awards Male TV Star of 2021 Won [67]
2022 Critics' Choice Super Awards Best Actor in a Superhero Series Won [68]
Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Male TV Star (Family) Won [69]
MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Team[d] Won [70]
Saturn Awards Saturn Award for Best Actor in a Streaming Television Series Nominated [71]
2024 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Drama Series Nominated [72]
People's Choice Awards Male TV Star of the Year Nominated [73]
Critics' Choice Super Awards Best Actor in a Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie Pending [74]

See also

Notes

  1. Infinity Stone.[42]
  2. ^ Also depicted in the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
  3. ninth episode of the second season finale of What If...?
    (2023)
  4. ^ Shared with Sophia Di Martino and Owen Wilson.

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